Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit?

[Jon Elson]

On 11/03/2019 02:33 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
> On 2019-Nov-02, at 2:39 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
>>   A rack, a Tektronix XY display,
>> a rack drawer, blanking panels, some neat mysterious instruments, two 8" floppy drives,
>> and a probable PDP-something all for $45?
>
> For what little it matters, the rack unit immediately below the CRT display is a NIM (Nuclear Instrumentation Module) crate.
>
>
It appears to be a complete multichannel analyzer for 
nuclear detectors.  It takes an analog signal, detects the
peak value, runs that through an ADC and then increments a 
memory location related to the ADC value, thus
producing a histogram of pulse heights.  These are 
equivalent to particle or Gamma ray energy.  Then, the
computer software can analyze it and tell you what 
isotope(s) produced that pattern.  This was a late 70's to
early 80's system that was in use at a number of physics 
labs and related research areas.

Jon